The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1860, Page 6

FFERTIE| mae 6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, BOITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFRCE N, W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON BTS. TERMS, cash in agvunce. Money sent by malt wil) be at the widvafthe vender.” Postage’ vaimps wot recdoed as neseripion “Tilt DAILY HERALD. two cente |, OT per annie THB x D” every Savarday.a i cent we es men, He Bese ton 99 rah or ferony pert nae 10,00 Princtuda postage; the Cabfornta Hon om the Gih and ‘aids af each as ohn conta copy er annum "a eSeiny HERALD on Wrinesday, at four cents per . or SZ annem VY DANCE, contatning tmportant ore a eens rere Cea it Ses on at ‘BEAL ALL asp Pace MNO ROTICE tab of anonymous corregpondencs We do not 4 MOV SRTINEMENTS renewed every day; advertisment (n- carted ix the Wasery Bunato; Pamir and in the ead Bur opean Elion. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Cooxe’s Rora, Ameui- THEATER. . BOWERY THEATRE. 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BRYANT@ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Brondway— Buaiasqurs, Boxcs, Dances, &c.—Joanny GOULER, NIRIA’S SALOON, Brosdway—Gro, Carsry’s Mi- sregis mt Boxes, Dances, Bucizsquss, &¢.—Mus, Dar's New Yuas Cais vow 1860 ATHENEUM, Brooklyn Sones, Dances, &0.—Prre: Muystnria ty Gravorran Pr YOLGE, PLYMOUTH CBURCT, Brookiva.—Dr. Scuppex's Lec- roxs om Hinpoo Fantuxtsm ap Boston Transcempan. TALISM. WASHINGTON TALL, Williamsburg.—Daarron’s Panton TRIPLE SHEET. Rew York, Thursday, January 19, 1860, MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. New York Herald—California Edition. The North Atlantic Steamshtp Company's steamship Atlantic, Capt. Pearson, will leave this port to-morrow afternoon, at two o'clock, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific will close at one o'clock to-morrow aftornoon. ‘The New Yorn Warxty Hxrap—California edition— containing the latest tntolligenice from all parts of the world, with a large quav' f local and miscellancens matter, will bo publishod at eloven o'clock in the morn- tug. : ‘Sing'e copios, in wrappors, ready for mailing, six cents. Agenta will please send in their orders as carly as poa- stvie, The News. Politicians of all creeds will find our reporis of yesterday's proceedings of Congress interesting. Another proposition for the protection. of slave property in, the Territorios, was introduced ia the Senate, The House was engaged in a stirring dis- cussion of the state of parties, in which Mr. Carter, of New York, sustained a conspicuous part. Our spetial despatch from Washington contains a brief synopsis of the testimony of Mr. Arny, given before the Senate Harper's Ferry Investigating Committee. Several subjects of interest were brought up in the Legislature yesterds In the Senate a re- port was made favorable to the bill providing for a just division of the estates of debtors. Notice was given of a bill providing for the election of Nota- ries Public and Commissioners of Deeds. A bill was passed providing for the protection of side- walks. The Sport of the Connecticut Boundary Commissioners was received. An executive ses sion was held. The bills relative to Wills wus de- bated until the adjournment. In the Assembly a bill was reported making appropriations to pay inte- rest on the State loan. The reports of the State Nor- mal School, the Idiot Asylum and the Superiaten.. dent of the Salt Springs were received. Bills were noticed for the protection of emigrants, to enable servants to recover their wages, to enlarge Auburn prison, to reorganize Anburn Insane Asylum, to collect damages at Quarantine, to amend the act against unsafe buildings, to authorize a Charter Convention in New York, and to impose additional penalties for violating the Eicction law. Among the bills introduced was one for the abolition of capital punishment, one to erect Highland sounty, and one to regulate the rate of interest on money. We refer to our despatches and reports for details. We publish in to-day’s paper a full report of the proceedings of the convention of manufacturers held at Meriden, Conn., yesterday. These proceed- ings, together with letters from onr correspondents in Massachusetts, Michigan and Virginia, which are also published, exh: the condition of trade be- tween the States, and Jikewise show thetone and diift of public sentiment upon the non-intercourse movement inaugurated at the South since the un- fortunate event at Harper's Ferry. The third anniversary dinner of the Hardware Board of Trade came off last evening at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Speeches were made by the Pre- sident, Peter Cooper, James T. Brady, Esq., and others. Although no distinct allusion was made to the beatings of the present condition of political affairs upom the Southern trade, yet a strong Union sentiment pervaded the proceedings; andthe slight- est reference to the importance of maintaining pacific relations with our Southern brethren met with hearty applause. See our report in another part of today’s paper. Tho d table shows the temperature of the roan, ot in this city during the week ending January 14, the range of the barometer and ther- mometer, the variation of wind curreats and the state of the weather, at three periods during each day, viz: at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M.:— oP. M. REMARKS, ick fog; afteracon overcast; beary rain Saturday—Thi poe fog; afte ol d pl igh oo ; afternoon clear and pleasant t RE ie eames y—Ciear; afternoon ae! Be ‘ast. Tucsday—Overcast and fogcy teysnighe thick fog. Wedecaday—Thick fog; afternoon.eyercast: night over- oomharsdaye Su0w! afternoon erercast; nigh! nrsday—S A overcast; night clondy. Fricay—Clear all day; evening overcast; snow duriog * EStarady —Overeant; afternoon overcast; with sleet and rain during evening, In another column will be found a highly inte, resting narrative of the wreck of the clipper ship Flora Temple, of Baltimore, in the China Sea, on the Sth of October last, with the loss of 850 coolies and 18 Muropeans. A fall acconnt of alf the -de- tafls of the disaster, with the efforts of the French steamer Gtronde to rescue the ship, and of the suffer. NEW. YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY) 19; 1860—TRIPLROSHEETS ings and perils of the officers and crew while at Rea, ts contained in tho graphic Letter of our cor- Tespondent. A serious accident happened on the Hudson River Railroad yesterday afternoon, of which we give some particulars in another column. The wife of Mr. T. W. Field, of Williamsbur , was 80 severcly injured t at he died at Yonkers a few hours su'sequently. They had been married in the morning at Ringston. Bishop McCloskey, of the Catholic church, was badly hurt, and ws eft at Yonkers. Mrs Schrimer, of 64 Willett atreet, Mr. Irving, of 71 Horatio street, and his wc, and Mrs. Thompson, wife of the publisher of the Bank Note Reporter, were also injured, together with several ochers, whose names have not been ascer- tained. . The Board of Education last evening hai the Bibie question before them once more. They fi wl- ly adopted resolutions directing tho President and Clerk to sign warrants for the payment of the ua- paid teachers, except one, whom they arranged must oalry this case to the Supreme Court to have it tested, thus removing the question from the Board of Education to the legal tribunals. The commotion caused by the subject in the Board \ast- ed‘several hours, and was quite stirring, as may be judged from our report. Scveral standing commit- tees were announced by the President, whose names we also publish. The Commissioners of Emigration held their uspal meeting yesterday afternoon, A resolution was adopted authorizing the execution of a mort: gage for a new loan of $50,000, for which the con- sent of the State officers has been procured, and which has been negotiated with the Mutual Insu- tance Company. The number of emigrants landed in the eity since December last was 1,153, and the number landed during the week numbered 250. There is an overdraft of $9,475 70 now against the Commission, We have news from Hayti, dated at Purt au Prince on the 24th ult. The people remained fait- ful to the oxisting government. The first anniver- sdry of the restoration of the republic was ccle- brated on the 22d ult. with much pomp. The spe" cial envoy to England, France and Spain had re turned, having announced the establishment of the republic to each government. All the sovereigns had addressed friendly letters to the Presidcat. The Haytien minister to Rome had been cordially received by the Pope. Drill mas'ers and nusictans for the army had arrived from France. There are seyen steamers from Europe due at American ports today. They have news six days later than that received by the Europa. They sailed from the other ports in the order annexed, Vizi-~ Port of dep Liverpool. . ‘Jan City of Manchester, m, he Turk’s Island Standard of the Sist ult, says there has beena slight improvement in the demund for salt since last report, but che price continues 73c. to Sc. When the vessels in port had finished their loading, the quantity on hand will be scarcely over 300,000 bushels, The market for becf cattle was agvin remarkably dull yesterday, and prices further favored pur- chasers. The offerings were of a better average quality, but very slow of sale, at a range of 5c. a 10c. per pound, including all kinds. Milch cows were steady and unchanged. Veals were in fair de- mand at 3}c.a 7c., as to quality. Sheep and lainbs were in good request, at $2 50 a $5 50a $7 per head. Swine were slightly lower, selling at sc. a 5gc. for Western. There were on sale—3 153 cat- tle, 93 cows, 391 veals, 9,000 sheep and lambs, and about 4,500 swine. The cotton market yesterday was firm al the advance previously noticed. The salos embraced about 3,400 bales, closing stiff on the basis of 1134¢. for middiing up- lands, and at 113¢¢, for Florida middling. The receipts at the ports have reached 2,449,000 bales, against 2,070, 000 in 1869 and 1,221,000 in 1858. The oxports amount to 1,847,000 bales, against 1,040,000 in 1859, and 622, C00 in 1868, ‘The stock on hand embraces 1,003,000bales against 637,009 in 1859, and 591,000 in 1858. Ths flour market was ged, while thero was rather moro doing in State dad Western brands. Southern was in modorate request and prices steady. Wheat was in somo Detter request for export and for milling. The chief trans. action was confined to Milwaukee club, at $1 25. Corn was in fair demand, with moderate sales, at prices given in another placo. Pork was steady, with sales of mess at $16 121 a $96 25: old primo at $1150 a $1156 and new do. at $13, The sales of sugar embraced 600 a 700 hhds., chiefly Caba muscoyado, and 49hhds. melado at full prices. Coffee was inactive, buteteady for Rio. Sales of 2,300 bags Rio were made at 114c. It appears that the whole importation of coffee into this port in 1859 amounted to 101,813,786 ibs., against 90,912,849 in 1858. The total ro: United States in 1859 amounted to 24 of which 2 50 Ibe. were taken for con! In 1858 the ‘amounted to 227,656,186 Ibs., . 251,255,099 wero taken for consumption. Though the im- ports exceeded those of 1858, tht amount taken for con- sumption showed a docrease of 27,872,240 Ibs. The fall- ing cff in consumption was chiefly in the Western States, where tbis trade, with others, suffored from the panic of 1857-58. Of the whole imports Into the United States in 1859, 1,124,574 bags, or about 177,682,354 Ibs., were im- ported from Bravil Commercial Effects of the Alienation of the Southern Men of Businesy, The public will find in our columns of this morning reports and letters from our Special Keporters in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Michi: gan and Virginia, describing the effect the pre- seat political agitation is having on our inter- State trade. The report of the proceedings of the Manufacturers’ Convention, held yesterday in Meriden, Connecticut, is particularly signifi- cont and important as indicating the reaction that is setting in throughout the industrial pottiens of the North. Notwithstanding the censtant efforts of the John Brown newspapers in this city to con- vince their readers that nothing has come out or is likely to come out of the doctrines of Seward or the book of Helper, unfavorable to the interests of trade and commerce, and that trearon may be safely committed and perse- vered in for political objects, it is evident to the mest careless observer that the conse- quences are already being felt and seen, like the thick darkaess ef Egypt, closing round one of the hitherto happlest countries ow the globe. In the first place, apprehensions are entertained, for the first time, in quarters where they were never harbored before, and the wisest and best men of the nation have felt it their duty everywhere to come forth to the peo- | ple with the utmost might of their intellects and | cloguence. to rouse them to a sense of their danger and their duty. Never before in our history the question of disunion been so { eenerally agitated, or so solemnly. When the Hartford Conventionis's set up a flag with five ttripes in it,and marched behind it to the im- mortal¢nne of Yankee Doodle, played uponatin } whistie, everybody laughed at them. That was disunion on a contemptible scale. But now it is | avery different thing, when the Southern States { are threatened with fire and sword by famatic | bordes of white men and a bloody insurrection of their blacks. It is clear that the Union is no longer the place for them, if they are to be constantly exposed to the forays of Northern murderers, supported by Northern clergymen, editors, statesmen and politicians, prayed for in the pulpits, elevated ag martyrs, and declared equal to Christ himself, Of what nse is the Union to our unhappy brethren of the South, if they are continually kept in peril for their Property or their lives? We appreciate fully the position they are placed In—we note their stand point, and do not wonder at their demand for guarantees when political lunatics and po- litical rascals are endeavoring to rise on their ruin snd to hold them forever in fear and in abject submission. If politicians were alone to settle this ques- tion, we should despair of a satisfactory settle- me»; but there are the immutable laws of self- interest and self preeervation, which often di- rect the policy of nations, in spite of bad statesmanship and corrupt indifference. The commercial relations of the Northern and Southern States, both intimately connected with another series of interests—thone of the West— are not so easily demolished as a platform or a demagogue. That our trade with the South has been seriously affected, by the present state of things both in and out of Congress, caanot be denied, notwithstanding the doubts attempted to be raised by the abolition presses in this city. Exchange has felt their effect, and Southern bills are now settled for in cash and remitted to the drawers without delay. The dormant capital of the cotton growers, hitherto left in New York to purchase supplies or luxuries, is being withdrawn. Their balances are getting emailer and smaller in the hands of the Northern bankers, If any more John Browns are to be sent into Virginia the money of that State will be required at home. In the next place, it is a fact that an exten- sive manufacturer of carriages built for the South has within a few days confessed that orders he had received from customers there, to the extent of one hundred and fifty, have recently been countermanded. The shoemak- ing interests of Massachusetts are also seriously embarrassed by a sudden change in the business. Every tenth person in that State is a shoemaker. In some counties—as in Essex—the whole population during the win- ter is engaged in this business. During the summer the men and women have other employments, and pursue them; but in winter every farm house becomes svorial, and the sound of the hammer and the lapstone is heard wherever a live Yankee has a habita- tion. The work is given out by contractors, who furnish the leather and findings, and who send the wares te market when they are com- pleted. The Southern States are the principal marts for these manufactures. The demand has suddenly ceased, and there is a loud wail in Essex over the failing contractors, burst up by this unexpected state of things. The South will no ‘longer buy Yankee shoos or brogans for themselves or their slaves, if guns and pikes are to be mannfattured in Massachusetts tobe pointed at their breasts, The loss of the South- rn trade will utterly prostrate this hitherto rosperous manufacture; and the amount of the sales has been hundreds of thousands of dollars per annum. Here among ourselves we understand many of the large clothing houses, with large stocks ahead, are exceedingly dis- couraged by the sudden cessation of the usual orders for the season, and in Philadelphia nearly all the manufactures usually disposed of at the South are at a stand still for similar reasons. And we now lay down this proposi- tion: Whatever article of Northern manufacture the South has hitherto consumed will be dis- pensed with if this conflict continues, and the republican leaders at Washington persist n their support, advocacy or toleration of Helper's or Geward’s doctrines. The choice of Sherman as Speaker will only be a proof of their perseverance in those doctrines, and if he is elected they will maintain them, We therefore warn every man of business in the North. who has commercial orfinancial re- lations with the South, that unless ample jus- tice is done the latter without delay, there will be a practical non-intercourse in operation, which will be felt in every department of busi- ness. Property will depreciate, rents fall, clerks be discharged and laborers be dismissed. Our shipyards will be deserted, and grass will grow in the streets. These are but a few of -the calamities which must follow the aliena- tion of the South. It cannot be disguised that houses of the largest credit are trembling and tottering, because their “wheel is broken at the fountain.” Now, what is the cause of all this, but the demoniacal conduct of the abolition- ists of the North? Who are they? Are they men of business, men of trade,men of property, or even men of sense? ‘No: they are distracted preachers, magazine writers, long-haired lec- tures, silly women and sillier men. They are the scavengers of society—the sweepers of the broad avenues of national prosperity, raising a dust, that they may use their own brooms and gain a few pence or a little notoriety. And for these and their fanatical nonsense the Union is endangered, and a party has been found willing to stand by them. We trust that the “impending crisis” will bring every honest man to his feet, to reaist the machina- tions of these enemies of the Union. We trust in Heaven that the patriots of the country will at once take sides against the black republican John Brown faction which now threatens the very existence of the government and the per- manence of the Union. One thing is certain: our government was created not for the discussion of logic, or men- tal philosophy, but for the security of life, -liberty and the pursuit of happiness. None of these objects are to be obtained by anarchy; bloodshed, or the rebellion of slaves. As sure as this infidel and treasonable oppositioa to the constitution, the laws of God and the mate- rial interests of our country is triumphant, we shall witnoss scenes in the United States for, which history offers no parallel. If we sufier these crackbrained abolitionists to destroy this confederacy, on which purpose their leaders are bent, the destruction of lives, the loss of property, the anarchy and the final overthrow of all our free institutions, will. be the resulis and the effects of their villainy. Neoro Ocrraces 1x Caxapa.—We copy else- where, from the Detroit Free Press, an account of an outrage recently committed in Anderdon, Canada West, by a party of negro refugees from this country, in which the most fiendish outfages were committed upon an elderly wo- man, and two men mortally wounded. The affair was deliberately premeditated, and grew out of the feeling which experience has created on the part of the white population against the continued introduction of negro criminals and runaways into the county. The affair fs part of the natural growth of Seyard’s “ irrepressi- dle conflict,” Helper'’s incendiary teachiags, and Greeley’s scoial philosophy for the negro; and the results are of the same character as those produced by similar teachings ia St. Do- mingo sixty years ago, and which will always accompany the prevalence of the abolition the- orles regarding the black race. The people of Western Canada are beginning to see their effecta, and seriously contemplate banishing the free negroes from their midst, as many of our Western States have done, The Grand Jury of the county of Anderdon has preeented the runaway negroes a being in the great ma- jority a get of shiftless and worthless charac- ters, and public opinion is becoming much ex- cited against them. The present outrage is supposed to be the result of a conspiracy for the combined purposes of robbery and revenge. ‘The Struggle in the Howse of Represen- tatives, The very remarkable scene which took place in the House during the debate on Tuesday affords a striking illustration of the truth of the old Latin proverb, “Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.” Mr. Pryor, of Virginia, who has been guilty of a terrible amount of newspaper infanticide, so far forgot all the proprieties which obtain between gen- tlemen, as well as the requirements of parlia- mentary law, as to accuse one of the opposi- tion members, Mr. Hickman, of Pennsylvania, of telling a deliberate falsehood. This state- ment was thrice repeated, when Mr. Hickman stated that he would not be bullied into fight- ing a duel, and Pryor disclaimed any idea of such a result. A more ungentlemanly course of conduct than that pursued by Pryor could hardly be found outside of the Five Points. Such are the facts in the case, and they are not at all pleasant or agreeable to look upon. Up to this time, the conduct of the Southern members upon the floor of the House has been such as to win the admiration and the respect of the whole country. They have been placed in a most trying position. Representing an enraged constituency, and presumed to be in thelr own proper persons more quick to quar- rel than the cool-blooded politicians from the North, they have, so far, behaved in the most admirable manner. They have used all proper parliamentary weapons against their opponents, but have never till the début of Pryor descended to personalities, or debased themselves by the use of vulgar and black- guard epithets. Pryor comes from a State which is proud, and not without reason, of its gentlemen. If the manners of the olden time — the highbred courtesy of the raffle and powder era—exist anywhere, it isin the State of Vir- ginia. Time was, until Pryor, when “Vir- ginian’’ was synonymous with “gentleman.” Nor was his vulgarity allowed to pass unre- buked by his colleagues, one ef whom (Mr. Millson) called Pryor to order twice, and vin- dicated, to a certain extent, the name and fame of the Old Dominion. - From the tone of the debate, it is evident, also, thatfother Southern gentlemen regretted the occurrence, and be- lieved that the House had been degraded by it, The conduct of Mr. Pryor is, after all, what might readily have been expected from him. He has simply transferred his brutality and violence from the columns of the newspapers to the floor of Congress. He is a mental shoulder-hitter, a philological pugilist, a moral bully. These traits marked him as an editor, when he always assailed his political oppo- nents with the vilest personal abuse, and he has carried them “with him into the House. The stam which he amxed upon journalism now blots the records of Congress. The characters of the other Southern members should not be judged by the standard of such a person as Pryor. It is indicated more fairly by their manly and courage- ous bearing, their unvarying respect for parliamentary usage, and their dignified manner of conducting a very exciting and im- portant debate. While some of the opposition members from the North have been carrying an affectation of piety and morality into their speeches, and at the same time violating the sanctity of the House with deadly weapons, the Southern members have afforded a marked contrast to such conduct, and confined them- selves strictly to legitimate and courteous de- bate. Foralong time the republicans have raised a great cry against the “ruffianism of the South.” Who seem to be the ruffians just now? It cannot be denied that the black repub- lican members of the House have lost ground, and a great deal of it, since the session com- menced. The arguments of the prominent democrats and the leaders of the Southern op- pesition have told well with the country; and the republicans have been struck dumb by the trenchant truths which have been brought home to them, a fact which is apparent by their silence. The case of Pryor is an exception to the general rules of courtesy and propriety which have been strictly observed by the Southern members, and it will be so regarded by the country at large. We call on the Southern members and the national men from the North and West to preserve their ranks unbroken, to maintain the dignity of the House, and to preserve the honor of the republic. This they may ac- complish by retaining the high toned and dig- nified position which they assumed at the be- ginning ef the session. The country regards the personalities and vulgar abuse of a member like Pryor as matters of very little conse- quence, when they are promptly condemned by his own colleagues. It is to the conserva- tive, national members of the House that the people look for the salvation of the Union and the perpetuity of our institutions. That thoce members will be found worthy of this sacred trast we have no doubt. Let them only be firm in the faith, and sectionalism, treason, aboli- tion, disunion and their train of kindred evils will be uiterly annihilated, and the dark cloud which now obscures the Capitol will give place to brighter skies and happier timeé. CorruPrion OF THE CorPoraTioN—Tue Ev- reets or AN Apvertisewent.—The following advertisement appeared in the columns of the Herat yesterday:— Avverrmanaret.—All parties having any knowiedge of mou Gugneilsor pocstening any ineresting facts In Fel or tion to the bietory and antecedents of the imembers of & reeent: ‘will please vend their statements to the ALD office at their eatliest convenience. The result of this publication was perfectly astonishing. Statements of all kinds of frauds and corruptions on the part of the past and present Corporations were pouring in from all quarters throughout the day, and we have now before usa pile of affidavits and other docu- ments the contents of which would startle the moat credujous beljeyer ig the rottennes? and —— corraption of our'city goverdment, We world remind our readess that the above sdvertisc- ment still bolds good. We shall contiane to receive with thanks all such information as it refers to, y The mode im which this anfortunate me- tropolis has been misgoverned for years hos no parallel in any city upon which the sua shines, Ten millions a year are expended | nominally for the government of New York, while at the same time it is in the most horri- ble condition at the present moment of any city in Christendom, reeking with filth and generating diseases of all kinds. In London and Paris not ap ounce of dust in summer, nor ® pound of anow in winter, is to be fouad in the streets after nine o’clock in the moraing, while our streets present n surface six inches thick of slush and snow and salt and every kind of abomination. The city could be kept in proper condition, and well governed, for half | ten millions of dollars under an honest system. ; One half of the ten millions now goes, in the | shape of spoils, to our corrupt officials. The Hon, Jefferson Brick oh the Tight Rope. x Our diminutive contemporary, the discoverer of the “sympathies of youth” in “the elbows of the Mincio,” having become convalescent from those terrible rear-ward wounds he dreamed of in the stampede from the Austrians, after the | (88, to the manger in which that action has au | has been resisted by the Southern States, { ticn of infuenecs, all traceable to one eource, complexfod cout constatertty Ye) head andk glove with that scbool, aud Le, iudicrensly enough, bolts but'dhe folioving sentence at the Albany exbibition;— 4 coee bay tor to repeat cl mor veluval tates t eee Thave beld bo Sentiment ct aay tlere which nt rue from joieing, earniy aud mimoceely, tm of this meeting. Neither his predece-gor, M. Bloudia, pre- fer one side of the ight repe to the other, Ie tact, Brick’s anti-slavery, abolitionist feclioge kelng all vented, Le passes over to the other side with a facility which wit be readily under 6tocd by thoce who know bim. Having proved to bis own eatisfaction tha: the Scuth are alll Wrong, be proceeds at once to show that. they are, with equal certainty, perfectly blamoles, and that, for the entire mischiof of the presen crisis, the republican party of the North is te be heid responsible, With bis head in & a somerset, and gyrations indescribable, he tinues: “What has produced in the minds aad hearts of the Americsa people, the revolution of sentiments which we now perceive?” He answers:— T sny that it is due to the direct action of otition- tical parties at tho Nerth, ana to the mannor in ih ead one moving impulse, has brought the couutry’ to ite the mild and charitable Christian principle who euffered bimself und { i H e 5 i u es if iE the al » to kill any man who battle of Solferino, has turned up in a new sphere of frog-pond notoriety. He has become the successful imitator of the daring feats, be- twixt wind and water, of Monsieur Blondiu. He has made a début, in carrying the balance pole across the invisible chasm, dividing tweedle-dum from tweedle-dee, which will be a subject of sincere congratulation to his Help- er’s book abolitionist friends. In fact, the recent outpouring of Mr. Jefferson Brick, at a bogus Union meeting at Albany, is quite a noteworthy little specimen of the complacent style of Mr. Peter McGrawler of the Asinccuia, who summed up his criticisms with the formu- la:—“This work would be excessively good, if it were not excessively bad.” Mr. J. Brick’s exalted aspiration, when a schoolboy, is said to have been, to conjugate with variations the verb “to trim,” and to create an ideal world out of its manifold synonyms. To unappre- ciated exercise of the imaginatioh, in this direction, is doubtless to be attributed his subsequent soubriquet of “little vil- lain,’ and also those brilliant scintilla- tions of fancy, in the details of geography, that have so astounded a- practical public. He quadrangular-ized the circle in Italy, and has, lately, bounded the United States after the cessation of its existence. “This Union,” he translucently declares, ‘is dissolved already;” bué it is “still bounded on the North by Canada, on the East and West by two oceans, and on the South by some line which it is not’ very easy very accurately to designate.” (Laughter!) This was the fling with which Blondin’s emulator started off on his tight rope. No wonder it convulsed his auditors; but they seem to have anticipated, after it, a little steady walking for a minute or two. They were totally unprepared to hear as a sequence to the proposition “the United States is no longer a nation,” ergo, “the republic is still one and indivisible.” This time there was no hi- larious outburst. Probably, in place of it, vague, afixious recollections sprang up con- cerning the distance to the nearest lunatic asylum. But, as heat drives out heat, so asto- nishment at our Solferino fugitive’s exordium disappeared before the rapidly succeeding somersets of his argument. After boldly pre- mising that “if our fathers had foreseen the cost of independence, they would ecarcely have plunged into ¢ke long and bloody war of the Revolution,” and “rushed madly into rebel- lion,” Brick wants to know what such nin- compoops as Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, &c, gained by it. “Where,” he says, “ere the blessings the Union was made to se- cure?’ Why, the South have nullified them completely, poisoned them into curses, and the immaculate North are the suffering martyrs of the misdeeds and atrocities of their trans-Poto- mac neighbors. He says :— What sort of a Union is that into one section of which a man from the other cannot go without being arrested, searched, his private papers seized, and, a ‘the merest euspicion, himself expelled with insult an ‘ignominy ag a traitor and an outlaw? Men of Northern birth are almost daily Griven from the Southern States—deprived of their property, divested of all their rights, without even tho form of trial, or the accusation of any crime, but on suspi- cien merely of holding Northern sentiments concerning an institution peculiar to the Southern States. Northern going to the South in certain sections of that country ees al espionage unknown in the most tyranni ed war of the coalition, seized and impri every lishman in Frarce, and ho was denounced all the indignation of outraged yirtao—not for having performed an unfriendly act, butfor having violated all the usages and laws of honorable war. Southern States treat citizens of the North in the same way, and we are ridiculed for inti- mating that the nance of such 1apttit ert 3 El i | i ree ii He i te fea H & i BEBE i eg: : E i eggeete lisa i i i ia tations from Brick’s own report of his dia- it, these societies entered upon their, slavery in the Southern States. ficat effect movement was to atartlo and arrest the Southern, their werk of emarciration. They found danger of being eudcenly crushed and buried the walls they were endeavoring gradually and remove. They found their siaves stimulated and to grasp by force what they were try ing to give ‘a boon, and in such & manner as to make it @ ing. bed found themseives compelled to look out fety in the presence of this now and serri- bie foc. The weenciary appcals of Northern circuisted in speeches, in pampbicts, through the and by emisearies and xgcats everywhere, compelled them fo asrume au attitude of self-defence, By this ane Btendy proccss of rovolution the elnvery agitation Ge- came gradvally the paramount element of oar police. Jn 1558, Ove great ctiem of the democratic party in the North---yielding to the preesure of the porlavery tendcacles of the federal governmen i te main body and defeated its candidate for sy. Abd in 1858, the old w ait superseded by the gre mat Of the- anti-slavery sentiment of tho time, nel | itself in the Dew orgauization which swept nearly” ¢ Northern States by immense majorities, and bare- ly eseaped-electing Joba C. Fremont to be Presideat of tho United States, These events, icllowing one santher in regular succession, showing the steady advance ia al the North of anti slavery convictions, and indicating with cortainty the coming nscendency of Northern influence ta the councils of the mation, ercated profound disquietude in the Southern mind. The vote for Fremont especially left an impression of danger more marked and serious than bad ever been made before. And yet this Jim Crow brick, who was gae of Fremont’s supporters, finds it perfectly com- sistent to denounce him! Waying becn behing the scenes, too, he authoritatively declares that the use of the slavery issue, by republican members of Congress, Governors and Lieute- nant Governors bas always been a most scan- dalons and rascally species of buncombe. Speaking of “personal liberty” bills, he says:— I am aware thatthe object, the real motive of these bills ts not the relief of fugitive slaves, nor the protection: of the personal iibertics of our own citizens. They are ‘utterly needless for either Their motive ig to make political capital at home. 2y Are brought forward by some iltustrious obscurity who lays the coming canvass while he bas his scat. He cnables himself to go home at the end of the session, and tell his constituents how bold and brave be bas beca in the cause of freedom—bow he labored to preserve the holy soil of Nis proud and noble State from the contaminating foot- print of the slave catcher; how ho dared the flercest rage i A i HH s J party, fad new ieste whic 5. B ference to the peace and harmony of the Union—he av a ee ee eee ce and between the regular and pledged support his own ty, and the votes such appeals may bring from sy! ‘hizers in other ranks, he is very apt to secure himself another winter eae: nity and remown in the councils of the State. The is of votes. It is mere! to fons and. pregudices of the ultra ‘and the fanalon, the public interest while they are only own. But it is precisely to this habit of pandering nions and bi ‘ies which public men do not share, that the danger of tho country is mainly due. Yet, after this denunciation of ‘ Peraonal Liberty” bills, our precious, honest Brick upon the subject, they were wofully mistaken. His idea is that such bills ought not to be pass- ed, because they are impolitic, and that his abolitionist friends ought to assert their views, “with the ends and aims of practical men, seeking practical results, rather than the appear- ance of victory.” ‘“Eyery man,” he asserts “\knows that no law is needed to prevent the return of fugitiveslaves. Not one in five hundred of thoze who have escaped have been sent back. The public sentiment is hostile to the execu- tion of the law,” and citizens“of the North have a right “ to obey the Fugitive Slave law or sub- mit to its penalties,” just as they like. He would not “engage in the work of returning into bondage a slave,” and he does not believe “any person with the ordinary instincts of hu- manity would do so.” So what, says Brick, is the use of passing unconstitutional laws, when, by “whipping the devil quietly round the stump,” they can so easily be evaded? Mr. Charles O’Conor comes in for a large share of dear little Brick’s abuse. So does the Heraxy. Its “ unwearied assiduity” in hunting out the truth, is odious in the last degree to the diminutive political tight rope dancer, and is denounced by Rim with dise malignity. He says it is not surprising that “ the South should have been alarmed” by such indiscreet disolo- sures ag the Heratp has made. The writers . for its columns should alao have taken lessons under Blondin, and then the abolitionist ex. off- cial would have been satisfied. Coxpirios or THR SrreeTs—There is not & city in the world, the Asiatic alone excepted, in which the present abominable condition of our streets would be tolerated. With the ex- ception of the dog nuisance, we are in the full enjoyment of sll the urban and suburban desagrémens of the Constantinople highways. ‘Hellesponts of slush, impassable to any but adventurous Leanders, sights and smells odious to Christian eyes and noses, and daily accidents to life and limb, describe in 9 few words the discomforts and casnaliles to which the citizens of thig great metropolis are -sub- jected. Is there no remedy for this state of things? Abroad we know that evils. of the same kind are fully met by municipal legisla- ion. In London, in Paris, in all the great cities of Europe, nothing of the sort is to he witnessed. Householders and storekeepers are held rigidly to aceount for the condition of the pavement before their tenements, whilst. the -authorities take care of the main thorough- / fares. No sooner does snow fall than it is |° shovelled into the middie of the causeways by the inhabitants; and once there, the street inspectors have it carted away. Any neglect of these arrangements would be followed by the immediate punishment of the one by fine, and of the other by dismissal. The conse- quence is that in none of the leading Exropean cities is the passenger ever incommoded by difficult crossings, by offensive odors, or by *